So, what do you do after adding time limits, new mazes, chain-multiplying ghost-gobbling, and a high-definition makeover to Pac-Man? Well, if you’re Namco, you decide to make a follow-up with even more ghost-related shenanigans and some additional tweaks for people who thought the original Pac-Man Championship Edition was too difficult.
Recently, a Namco representative came by to show off Pac-Man Championship Edition DX, and the first thing he addressed was how difficult the original Pac-Man CE was. Admittedly, it was tuned for competitive Pac-Man players; people who just wanted have Pac-Man gobble up some pellets for fun were a bit thrown back by how harsh the game could get at times. It’s for those players that Namco has included things like an easy mode, bombs, and a sort of Pac-Bullet-Time.
